Charlie Day's recipe from the pasta challenge
Ingredients
- pasta:
- 400 g 00 flour
- 4 eggs
- 1 tblsp olive oil
- fish:
- 2 fillets smoked haddock
- 1 fillet hot smoked trout
- milk
- bay leaf 5 peppercorns
- sauce:
- 1 shallot (chopped)
- 1 carrot (chopped)
- i clove garlic (chopped)
- 1 stick of celery( chopped)
- 125 ml white wine
- 250 ml cream
- lemon juice
Method
- Sauce:
- sweat shallots in a pan with a little butter
- Add garlic + celery + cook for a few minutes
- Add sprig of thyme + wine. Reduce by half
- Add stock + reduce by half
- Pass through sieve, add cream + reduce to sauce consistency
- Season with lemon juice
- Pasta:
- Mix flour + eggs + oil + a pinch of salt
- Bring together + knead till smooth
- Wrap in cling film + leave to rest
- Fish:
- Heat milk + simmer
- Add haddock + bay leaf + peppercorns
- Simmer for 7 mins
- Set aside + break into flakes, add trout
- Shape pasta with machine
- Bring pot of water to boil
- Add salt + pasta
- Cook for 2 minutes
- Add fish to sauce, put cooked pasta into saucepan + combine
- Deep fry capers for 1 minute @ 180°
- Serve pasta in a bowl garnished with capers + fish eggs
